Resizing Bootcamp
After installing Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, I quickly discovered that I had shortchanged the Bootcamp partition when assigning disk space (only 32GB). A quick search on the web revealed numerous methods for resizing, the most common procedure being to: Using Winclone on the Mac, create an image of the Bootcamp partition; Run the […]
Sakai Install: Preparing the System
We chose Linux as the platform for Sakai. The main reason was cost — no licenses for the server OS and the availability of low cost server hardware. We opted for CentOS 5 as the flavour of Linux. It is basically Red Hat Enterprise and has proven to be robust in the past. CentOS is […]
Upgrading an existing Sakai installation
The next few posts will chronicle the process of creating a fresh install of the Sakai portal/course management system and then importing content from an existing installation. The organization that I went through this process for had a Sakai instance that had been installed by a vendor/consultant as a binary distribution. We relied on the […]
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo Originally uploaded by robtain This photo was taken by my grandfather sometime in the 1950s. I have a crate full of old slides and am trying to get it together to digitize them all.
Back online!
Just finished getting the site back online after my hosting provider suffered a service outage and catastrophic data loss. While the experience was nerve-wracking and a pain in the behind, it is probably the kickstart that I needed to tend to this little garden again. Spring is in the air, so some photo walks are […]
Wine Glass
Wine Glass Originally uploaded by robtain I might have composed this better, but the was a combination of timing and circumstance. I saw the glasses on the table. It was late afternoon and the sunlight was pouring through the patio door onto the table. I wanted to see if I could capture the particular quality […]
Flower Girl
Flower Girl Originally uploaded by robtain So far I am loving my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens. The shallow depth of field that I can attain really makes photos like this portrait of my daughter really stand out. I now have three lenses in my kit, but since I bought the 50mm, I have […]
Blog changes
I finally got around to working out a few bugs in the WordPress theme that I’ve been using (K2). I’ve been watching the K2 release candidates regularly for updates so that I could fix this once and for all. My sidebars were disappearing randomly, rendering my sidebar content relatively useless. Hopefully this will work better. […]
Jungle Gym
Jungle Gym Photograph by Jennifer McCann. Originally uploaded by robtain
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk Originally uploaded by robtain Another photo taken with the 70-300 mm zoom. After hearing people talk about it, I am really starting to appreciate “bokeh“. This photo was taken at the Ecomuseum in Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Quebec. The subject is a red-tailed hawk.
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